[Remote] Senior Manager, Platform Security

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services. The Senior Manager, Platform Security will lead the Platform Security team to implement secure architectures and technologies, ensuring the safety and security of Gemini's services and customer trust.


Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic and technical leadership of Gemini's Platform Security team, personally architecting and implementing security solutions alongside engineers — including writing and reviewing Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and security tooling code
  • Align team-wide strategy with the needs of the business, internal partners, & peer Security leadership
  • Enable the ongoing success & growth of the team through creation of hiring plans and hands-on technical mentorship — pairing with engineers, reviewing designs and PRs, and staying current on the team's actual codebase
  • Establish a Platform Security roadmap for initiatives that will provide ever-increasing maturity of capabilities for stakeholders, while also reducing toil through automation
  • Serve as a senior technical escalation point for the team's hardest architecture and engineering problems, contributing working code/IaC when the situation calls for it
  • Foster trust-centric relationships with key partner teams, ensuring that their voices are heard and needs are being met, while achieving excellent security outcomes together
  • Lead the development of security policies, procedures, standards, & guidelines that will guide functional security outcomes with all GRC and Audits needs being met
  • Determine program KPIs that will meaningfully highlight where we’re succeeding, or falling short of, the mission we aim to accomplish for the business
  • Provide guidance through lived-experience and industry awareness on the different approaches to architecture, security engineering, and business-achievement goals
  • Define a customer-first process, choosing to provide self-service solutions that minimize friction, create agility, and provide value-oriented ways to solve problems
  • Manage relevant third-party vendor relationships, leading the determination of when & why to “build” vs. “buy” in response to gaps in capabilities the business may have

Skills

  • 5+ years of leadership experience for cloud-native engineering and/or security teams, with a strong preference for Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based organizations
  • 10+ years of direct, technical experience in relevant roles (e.g., Platform Engineering, Security), with continued hands-on coding/IaC work within the last 2-3 years — not solely past practitioner experience
  • Strong experience in AWS, EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
  • Experience leveraging industry security frameworks & standards that act as the basis of maturing the overall security program and enable successful business outcomes
  • Comfortable with hiring & scaling a team
  • Prior success in leading a team through organizational change management, with a strong preference for start-up experience in a technology-centric business
  • Able to easily communicate with technical stakeholders at their level, hearing their feedback and translating those needs or concerns into program-level outcomes
  • Pragmatic about security requirements, ignoring 'best practices' that don't make sense to the needs of the business by leveraging your team's expertise for decision making
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with an attention to detail

Benefits

  • A discretionary annual bonus
  • Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
  • Comprehensive health plans
  • 401K with company matching
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Flexible time off
  • In the United States, we offer a hybrid work approach at our hub offices, balancing the benefits of in-person collaboration with the flexibility of remote work.
  • Employees who do not live near one of our hubs are part of our remote workforce.
  • All employees, however, are required to onboard in-person at one of our office locations.

Company Overview

  • Gemini is a licensed digital asset exchange and custodian built for both individuals and institutions. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is

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  • Gemini has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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